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295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm

295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm
295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm
We report a gain-switched diode-seeded thulium doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) producing up to 295-kW picosecond pulses (35 ps) at a repetition rate of 1 MHz with a good beam quality (M2~ 1.3). A narrow-band, grating-based filter was incorporated within the amplifier chain to restrict the accumulation of nonlinear spectral broadening and counter-pumping of a short length of large-mode-area (LMA) fiber was used in the final stage amplifier to further reduce nonlinear effects. Finally, we generated watt-level> 2.5-octave supercontinuum spanning from 750 nm to 5000 nm by using the MOPA output to pump an indium fluoride fiber.
1094-4087
6490-6498
Liang, Sijing
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Xu, Lin
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Jung, Yongmin
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Shepherd, David
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Richardson, David
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Jung, Yongmin
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Shepherd, David
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Richardson, David
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Liang, Sijing, Xu, Lin, Fu, Qiang, Jung, Yongmin, Shepherd, David, Richardson, David and Alam, Shaif-Ul (2018) 295kW peak power picosecond pulses from a thulium doped fiber MOPA and the generation of watt-level >2.5 octave supercontinuum extending up to 5μm. Optics Express, 26 (6), 6490-6498. (doi:10.1364/OE.26.006490).

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We report a gain-switched diode-seeded thulium doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) producing up to 295-kW picosecond pulses (35 ps) at a repetition rate of 1 MHz with a good beam quality (M2~ 1.3). A narrow-band, grating-based filter was incorporated within the amplifier chain to restrict the accumulation of nonlinear spectral broadening and counter-pumping of a short length of large-mode-area (LMA) fiber was used in the final stage amplifier to further reduce nonlinear effects. Finally, we generated watt-level> 2.5-octave supercontinuum spanning from 750 nm to 5000 nm by using the MOPA output to pump an indium fluoride fiber.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 March 2018
Published date: 19 March 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 419150
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419150
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 76ad0e9a-a5a1-4236-b53f-f12f0a08891c
ORCID for Lin Xu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4074-3883
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for David Shepherd: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-8184
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 06 Apr 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:16

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Author: Sijing Liang
Author: Lin Xu ORCID iD
Author: Qiang Fu
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: David Shepherd ORCID iD
Author: Shaif-Ul Alam

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